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Tested

Tested

By: Inception Point AI
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Felix Mercer examines testing as both discipline and mindset, exploring what rigorous verification truly demands across medicine, engineering, and business. Discover why most organizations test far less than they believe and how genuine testing cultivates quality, learning, and institutional humility.

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  • Tested - Discover what truly works with Felix Mercer
    Apr 17 2026
    Join host Felix Mercer as he explores the gap between what we think we've tested and what we've actually verified. Through stories from medicine, engineering, psychology, and organizational culture, Tested examines why intellectual rigor is rare and why humility is our most underused tool for getting things right.

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    1 min
  • Tested - Epistemic Honesty: Building Organizations That Actually Want to Know
    Apr 17 2026
    Felix Mercer examines why organizations claim to value truth-seeking but punish problem-surfacers. Drawing on epistemology, virtue theory, and psychological safety research, he explores how intellectual humility, structural honesty, and rewarding failure-finding transform testing into genuine learning—and why most companies fear uncomfortable truths.

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    29 mins
  • Tested - Humility as Method: What Medicine Learned the Hard Way
    Apr 17 2026
    Felix Mercer explores medicine's shift from cultural competence to cultural humility, revealing how confidence undermines verification. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, and medical research, he argues genuine rigor requires treating assumptions as unproven hypotheses—a lesson extending beyond healthcare to engineering, business, and quality assurance.

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    30 mins
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